Marin Watershed: Anthropologically, this ethnography highlights both the differences and the similarities of actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs.

Harbin ethnography:



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Anthropologically, this ethnography highlights both the differences and the similarities of actual and virtual Harbin Hot Springs. It thus explicitly contrasts the two, as a binary, as it also examines the multiply ways they are similar, especially in terms of ethnographic representation. While characterizing both involves anthropological interpretation (Cerwonka and Malkki, 2007) of separate discourses, their interplay and the contexts from which both arise – an on-the-ground place with a culture emerging out of the milieu of the freedom-oriented social movements of the 1960s - make the interpretations of these binarisms and similarities particularly edifying in exploring the virtual. Both actual and virtual Harbin, as contexts for alternative ways of life, as expressions of different, countercultural worldviews, are also both expressions of New Age thinking, and are thus, at Harbin especially, expressions of a kind of philosophical, religio-connected oneness, that is of similarity emerging out of Harbin thinking and the Harbin pools. As such, the similarities and differences in this ethnography are interpretations of both myself as author and ethnographer of Harbin, as well as you. I thus ask you, the reader, to rif openly in your own bodymind on complementary interpretations emerging in relation to the differences and similarities of actual/virtual Harbin.

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(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/marin-watershed-nthropologically-this.html - May 18, 2010)